Lamp-wick attachment



(No Model.)

F. RUSSELL.

LAMP WICK ATTACHMENT.

Patented Sept. 4, 1888.

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' FRANK RUSSELL, OF STONE-IAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

LAMP-WICK ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389.171, dated September 4,1888.

Application filed August 20, 1887. Serial No. 247,441. (No model.l

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Bussum., of Stoneham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Im provernent in Lamp-Tick Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention relates, especially, to a device or attachment to a lamp-wick adapted to beinserted with thewick into the interior of the lamp-reservoir or oil-holder, and to actin connection with the upper surface of the rrservoir or holder as a stop or holding device for preventing the falling of the burner from the lamp when unscrewed for the purpose of supplying the reservoir or oil-holder with oil or for any other purpose, and also for the purpose of holding the wick to the side of thein let of the reservoir or holder in such a manner as to prevent its obstructing the passage.

Heretofore in filling the reservoir or lampholder of a kerosene or other oil lamp it has been necessary to unscrew the burner, and either remove it and the wick bodily from the lamp, and to hold it in one hand while the oil was being poured from acan held by the other, or else to hold the burner close te thelamp-body and with the wick in the inlet to the reservoir. Vhichever way was used, there was but one hand free to hold the oil-can and pour the oil. To free or release the other hand, also to prevent the escape or dropping of the oil from the wick during the filling of thelamp, Ihave provided the wick with the attachment above referred to.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in sec tion of a lamp and burner detached and of the wick-holding device in operative position. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective ofthe wick and wick-holding device attached. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the wick-holding device only.

A represents the lamp,- a, the oil chamber or reservoir; a', the neck ofthe lamp, to which the burner f is attached, and which has the inlet or passage as.

B is the Wick. C is the wick-holding device. 'Ihe latter is represented as made from sheet metal, the ends of which are bent to forni a flat sleeve, with the exception of two sections or arms, c, which extend outwardly from the lower end of the sleeve. The other sections, c', are adapted to be closed upon the wick to clamp the device to the Wick,and when secured to the wick the arms extend outwardly therefrom, as represented in Figs. l and 2. This device, generally, is put at the lower end of the wick, and it is of a size to just enter the inlet or opening to the oil-chamber when in a perpendicular or straight position, but of course may be adjusted in almost any position on the wick lengthwise.

In operation, upon the unscrewing of the burner and the drawing out of the wick, the burner being drawn from one side ofthe inlet causes the wick to bear against the upper edge of the neck and to slightly incline the sleeve, causing the ends of the prongs or arins to strike against the upper surface of the oil reservoir or chamber close to the neck and upon the op posite side, as represented in Fig. 1, and to thus act as a holding device or stop for holding the wick and detached burnerto thelamp. The sleeve also acts to hold the wick close to one side of the passage or inlet, and thereby provides an unobstructed opening to the res ervoir or chamber.

I would say that I do not confine myself to the especial form or shape of the wick-holding device herein specified, as it is obvious that there are other ways by whichthe same result can be obtained.

The sections c',being somewhat ileXible,can be readily lifted, so as to allow the device to be removed from one wick and applied to another, or to be shifted down on the wick as it is consumed.

Having thus fully described niyinvention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States# l. As an article of manufacture, a holding device for holding a detached burner and lamp-wick to a lamp-body, adapted to be fastened to the section of the wick within the oil reservoir or chamber of the lamp, and having one or more arms extending laterally therefrom, which are adapted to come in contact with the upper surface of the said reservoir or chamber upon the upward movement of the wick, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a lamp-body having IOO an oil reservoir or holder, Ict, a Wick inlet or with arms extendinglaterally from said sleeve, entrance thereto,with the burner a2, and Wick as and for the purposes described.

B, having a holding device attached at or near 4. A wick-holding device comprisinga metal its inner end and adapted to be held in the sleeve having the clam ping-sections c and the 5 oil reservoir or chamber, as and for the purarms c, substantially as described.

poses specified.

3. The combination of ythe lamp-body and FRANK RUSSELL' the oil reservoir or chamber a, and the inlet Witnesses: or entrance thereto, with a Wick, B, having THos. WM. CLARKE,

io the metal sleeve attached thereto provided FRED. B. DOLAN. 

